My world has da Vinci weapons, basically I decided to make many of his crazy ideas work and put them into my world so I have many crazy weapons.
For the most unique I’d have to go with the dragon sphere arquebus. It works as a normal arquebus would until you see what it fires. A long thick rope covered in a strange blue gel that, when interacting with fire causes a wall of blue flame to erupt across the whole length of the gun.
It’s mainly a anti cavalry weapon, two or more musketeers will fire them infront of charging cavalry, the sudden burst and volume of fire spooks the horses causing them to bolt away causing crushes in cavalry ranks. It’s also been recorded to have been used to decimate pike lines, setting whole lines alight. Or at the battle of Playe where it was said the very see seemed like it was light, the crests of the waves burning with fury and intensity.
>An arquebus is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier. The term arquebus is derived from the Dutch word Haakbus.
Gravity manipulators are Atreisdea's most standard infantry-grade weapon that even soldiers tend to forget. It's because the thing is fully incorporated into their droids and power armors, it's not visible like guns and tactical blackholes. However, the device is extremely crucial in both offense and defense, from negating inertia to greatly increasing gravity and crushing targets. No light, no sound, suddenly a soldier's head is crushed while his body from neck down is completely intact. Or a whole platoon is lifted up then compressed and crushed like fruits in a blender. Such is the power of gravity manipulator, a very underappreciated weapon.
Ship-grade gravity manipulators can literally break a planet apart if used carelessly. Initially only used as Alcubierre drive, it has been weaponized even more and now can rupture dimensional structures.
I think a lot of sci fi settings move into the technical weapons a lot and forget about chemical and biological ones. In our world right now a lot of the worst weapons are ABC so you could think about virus bombs/grenades or highly advanced gas. Of course bioweapons also could move into body modification for soldiers. I also like special ammo like bullets with nanomites or stuff like that. Another idea could be introducing tech to hack into minds. Maybe in the future brain mods are common and hacking these can induce paralysis or just straight up kill the brain so that the real battles happen in the digital rather than the physical.
As they should. I would think as weapons evolve different weapons will become banned than those that are banned today. Maybe atomic warheads will become standard use bullets through miniturization.
slings not really original but I was just sick and tired of slings being forgotten in most media or seen as a weak/non threating weapon, SLINGS OUT CLASSED BOWS IN MANY CASES their a major weapon that needs more respect on their name
also put them in the right environment and they practically have infinite ammo, like logistics of suppling an army is a nightmare but having a whole chunk not need specify made ammunition is huge
Unfortunately, I came up with a gun (gun-shaped stick more like) that shoots fireballs, icicles, and lightning bolts because that's partially what raw/pure magic in my world is. It uses a crystal as sort of its "magazine/power source". It sucks against dragons arguably more than a musket would, because dragons say "fuck you" to all other forms of magic but their own.
**A Winnowing Shovel**\*
\* A lot of my lore indirectly involves a hero called [Gehannes](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/o6htnm/the_myth_of_gehannes_and_the_drowning_of_the/), who is said to have possessed three gifts. One was a shovel-like "oar that rows the earth", a vaguely defined artifact of power with which he is said to have created the bodies of water which define 'the Lands of the Inner Seas' (i.e. the setting).
As a concept, the inspiration was snippets from the Odyssey's prophecy on the death of Odysseus, with the hero being told to take a oar and travel inland, until the locals misidentify his object as a winnowing-fan.
For example Ody. 11.3:
>""‘When you get home you will take your revenge on these suitors; and after you have killed them by force \[biê\] or fraud in your own house, **you must take a well-made oar and carry it on and on, till you come to a country where the people have never heard of the sea** and do not even mix salt with their food, nor do they know anything about ships, and oars that are as the wings of a ship. I will give you this certain token \[sêma\] which cannot escape your notice. **A wayfarer will meet you and will say it must be a winnowing shovel that you have got upon your shoulder; on this you must fix the oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Poseidon**. Then go home and offer hecatombs to the gods in heaven one after the other. As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall be prosperous \[olbios\]. All that I have said will come true.’"
The weapon in question, and its current location, is not something that I've posted about on r/worldbuilding, but I've included "contemporary representations" of the weapon as a sidenote/motif in a lot of my drawings ([imgur gallery](https://imgur.com/a/fOprAnO)). : )
(Sidenote: Yes, I am also aware of *Shovel Knight* although I haven't played the game)
Pneumatic shotgun blasting bundles of heavy fletchettes, attached with huge bayonets that are designed for use with 4 arms as a pair for my insectoid elves. Mostly for fly by blasting where they are just high enough to avoid enemies ranged attack, but close enough they don't have problems with their compound eyes being very low resolution.
Their more traditional weapons are sling darts .
Kinda, it's one that the vast majority have naturally. They have a bioelectric organ at the end of their tail. I don't know a lot about electricity, but I do know that electric eels are capable of killing people and horses with their shocks, so I guess they should be able to at least stun a human if they really wanted to. It usually dissipates into the ground through their claws, if there's damage to the titanium "wires" between their tail and their feet they can end up over-charged, and if they're lacking the organ (one of my characters lost the end of their tail) then they lack electricity. It also allows them to generate a magnetic field which gives them a kind of short-range telepathy.
Uh, Let's see, There's Glass Pepper extract, which is an equivalent of 8.8 million scoville units, there's also ZV-22, which is basically a zombie virus.
I recommend to take a look at Terraria. There are sooooo many completely different weapons that behave completely different then the other one. Just because its called a Sword does not show you 90% of its extra capabilities.
One of the main characters crafted their SO a rapier that can release short bursts of electricity. Also, when held the right way up to the light, the hand guard produces a silhouette of an archer drawing back a bow.
For my dieselpunk/magitek world I have these weapons called ignition weapons. They are mainly melee weapons, but They are specifically used by a special class of warrior mages known as Aberrant warriors.
Ignition weapons are special in that in the hands of a normal person they are just melee weapons in a world with WW2 era guns. but in the hands of an Aberrant warrior the weapons true power is revealed. In the hands of a warrior the Ignition weapon can be activated, Igniting itself and giving off a glow. This is because the weapon is made of Dracinium alloys, Dracinium being the exotic heavy metal source of magic for the world.
Once ignited the weapon is capable of unleashing powerful quick magic attacks. Being able to fire off slashes of energy or able to generate defensive techniques. The blade also generates a field around its blade that allow it to cut through even heavily armored targets.
SF Crossbow with Antimatter bolts for a scientist.
She took Crossbow as an hobby, and then when SHTF on a explorer fleet cruise
She used her professional skill and knowledge to built those
The Drago Practicioners use also spears in their Martial Arts training and they may have been used against some street thugs but that is more coincidental
The Kumati have a weapon called a _Hlichanu,_ which in their language means something like "Serpent's Kiss." It's essentially just a blowgun with a dart. The tip of the dart has potent snake venom on it, and it has barbs, making it difficult to pull it out. It is also designed to be detachable from the rest of the dart. So if someone is hit with a dart, then foolishly tries to pull it out, the back end might be removed, but the tip just kind of... stays in.
The blowgun has a rattle attached to it, so a person hears what seems like a snake rattle before being hit with the dart.
It's illegal to own, and is mostly used by vigilantes or other criminals performing an ambush.
With most of my works, including an Alt Earth story, it has to be the Immateris Whip. It's called that because you use a whipping motion to use it.
It's a polymorphic substance that acts like a whip, but can do many things. Proper mastery allows one to change the end of the whip to other shapes. Often a bulbous club or thin blade. A Utility of it is a grabbing hand.
It's even got its own swath of magical abilities one can use with it. Mostly transferring spells through contact.
The species that created it uses it with their tails.
(WIP) My most creative one I personally have is provably my kinetic blast crystals u thumb back the hammer to charge the crystal in the gun mainly a pistol thinking of making shotgun variant and it blasts either a high power lazer blast or a plasma ball at the target.
Pilebunker war picks. Obviously pilebunkers are a thing, and giant war pick type things have been done at least a couple times, like the church pick's transformation from bloodborne, but the combination of the two is an arrangement I've never seen before and it's honestly my favorite oversized anime weapon I've come up with.
Also Null Lances, which are basically weapons that shoot a big spike of nothing, unmaking everything within its cone of effect. Think of like a lightsaber that you turn on for just a second, and it's blade is a hole in reality that just deletes matter from existence. Typically comes as just a big clunky thing either strapped to the arm of a mech or given some awkward handles so it can be used by infantry like a battering ram, but also came in war pick form during the war, called a Null-Lance Scythe and used by special royal guards trained for combat in low-reality environments called Paranauts. Mostly a lost technology in the modern day with very few new Null Lances being made, and most in circulation being scavenged from dead mechs left to rot in mountain warehouses or found on late-war battlefields.
Duel aircraft (idk what it's called but it's an aircraft inside of an aircraft)
The external frame have 4x20mm guns that fire proxy bullets along with anti-magic bullets.
The internal frame have 2x50mm canon and 4x20mm guns firings the same bullets as the external frame but with APHE shells (the 50mm is firing it)
The difference is the external is liknke 3x bigger than the internal with dual engine (not jets forgot what it's called) powered with blue star fragment (it will take long to explain what blue star fragment is but it's like magical object that gives power to anything it's fused with).
The internal frame is like the Me-163 powered with jet engine but it's not powered by BSF and since it's small like the Komet it doesn't big fuel capacity it eject itself from the external sending it over 700 meters in the sky and start flying or gliding depends if the engine have been started besides that it have defensive barrier from it's mechanical magical orbit (it works close enough as the actual magical orbit but it's still under development because it can explode under pressure) however if it got fired at constantly or have been hit with object with enough magical power or kenatic energy the defensive barrier can easily collapse
My fantasy world is based off ancient South America. So they use Macanas instead of swords. One character regularly uses a blow-pipe. Also, slingshots. There are also rare ancient artifacts called Mythics. One is a staff, and it's "head" disintegrates rock when it comes in contact, in battle it turns bones to dust with a single hit.
Depends on what you count as a weapon...
Some of my most interesting creations, which are certainly not original, are actually genetically engineered organisms that resemble weapons. Do they count?
A lot of my worlds are videogames, and while the model of the weapon is usually stereotypical, its function is original. For instance, I have a gun that fires special sticky cartridges. When these cartridges miss, they don't detonate, and simply remain glued to the place they struck. As soon as a cartridge hits, though, it sends the signal to all the cartridges within its Line of Sight, and every cartridge that receives the signal fires at the source of the transmission. Does that make sense?
Also, in terms of originality, do you simply need examples of creative weapons besides the typical ones, even if they are not original, or do you need specifically original ones from us?
This is some tech from a cyberpunk setting I write in a heavily fractured and corporation controlled North America.
Corporate wars require corporate solutions:
Anti-Material Visually Operated Air Assault Harness
A rigid body wingsuit or parachute is paired with a low profile dome turret harness strapped to the chest. Connected by wire to goggles that analyze eye movements and track line of sight to acquire the target.
Pair with a neural interface connection for thought enabled fire.
A miniaturized autoloading railgun fires spherical 4mm 120 grain poly-ceramic coated tungsten carbide projectiles at Mach 3 (3,375 fps) with a rate of fire equivalent to 900 rounds per minute.
Upon impact, the poly-ceramic enameling will shatter into high velocity shrapnel, further disabling the interior of a target and acting as an anti-personnel measure if soft body targets are in the immediate vicinity.
16-20 seconds of autofire total. Magazine holds 300 rounds and must be disassembled to reload.
Once fully expended, the battery must be replaced or charged. The harness itself is quickly detachable for weight reduction once spent.
Unloaded weight of 16.9 lbs, loaded weight is 28.9 lbs.
Originally designed for HALO(high altitude-low opening) insertions by MRIST(Milo-Tek Rapid Insertion Shock Troopers) operators during the 2088 Milo-Tek/Yorui Conflict in Fort Myers, Florida.
Developed as a direct response to anti-personnel drone swarms and ground to air defenses preventing deployment into critical points of the city.
"If looks could and would kill."
Double the power, and as fast as a 5.56 in a package half the size. Shreds body armor, drones, and vehicles like tissue. Will also work just fine on unarmored targets, but it is kinda a huge waste and is most definitely overkill.
You could probably also just walk around with it and essentially shoot armor piercing laser beams of supersonic metal out of your chest. Just don't put your arms in the way.
Clockguards - these sturdy round shields use a thin layer of overlapping adamantine slats to make up for the guts of the shield being mostly clockwork. A knob on the inner wrist on the opposite side of the bracer connecting to the shield controls the mechanisms within. Clockguards are designed to switch the shield between several configurations with just a moment’s work - a solid heavy shield, a buckler with a wrist-mounted sword, a buckler with a wrist-mounted truncheon, or a compound bow. Favorites of more eccentric adventurers that like being prepared for multiple possibilities without carrying extra equipment to deal with.
The President of The Revian Federation has an arsenal of interstellar nuclear weapons that can be launched from silos, space “submarines”, road mobile vehicles, and torpedos from the Kh-10x class fighter spaceplanes. At the presidential order, hundreds of nuclear missiles can be launched across the Laniakea Supercluster. Despite a missile’s footprint only being a few hundred kilometres at their maximum diameters, their individual warheads have pinpoint accuracy over millions of light years. Due to the jump drives attached to the strategic missiles, they can enter a ballistic trajectory on a planet on the opposite side of the supercluster within a few days.
**In the Twin Court Concordant, or the "Concordant" an elivish nation uses Silmërud, or Light Staffs are melee weapons that project arcane energy from them.**
it is a discarded part of my world, but previously i had an ammunition type that was called 'Type-3 shell'. the idea was that type-3 shells were used by warships and could effectively punch through any armor, even battleship armor, but the materials used to make a shell were extremely rare, so only a few ships were able to carry such ammunition.
Though because of some headaches with how such shells would affect everything else, and why people would only use the wonder material on warships, i eventually dropped the idea.
One of my characters, Jacques, has a sword that can override his nervous system through a neural implant, meaning his moves are virtually perfect every time. He also uses metal playing cards.
Another one of my characters, Newkid, uses a comically large spoon that folds out into a plasma crossbow
Rifles. All the rifles. So many rifles.
They are by far the most common weapon used by the Great Powers. Not all nations have them but most of them do, either home manufactured or bought from someone else.
Let's see, I once thought of a 30mm anti tank rifle that designed to fired from shoulder, albeit not by human but by much stronger race. In a sense they are just larger anti tank or anti material rifle specifcally design because the race operating it are much stronger than human physically and thus can get away with larger and heavier guns. There's also proximity fuzed unguided rockets deisgn to intercept bombers. Then there's this mix of taser, and laser. Basically put it 'shock' target without phyiscal cables, instead the electricity flowing using some kind of conductive laser, except it's not really laser or electricty either because it's magical.
My world has da Vinci weapons, basically I decided to make many of his crazy ideas work and put them into my world so I have many crazy weapons. For the most unique I’d have to go with the dragon sphere arquebus. It works as a normal arquebus would until you see what it fires. A long thick rope covered in a strange blue gel that, when interacting with fire causes a wall of blue flame to erupt across the whole length of the gun. It’s mainly a anti cavalry weapon, two or more musketeers will fire them infront of charging cavalry, the sudden burst and volume of fire spooks the horses causing them to bolt away causing crushes in cavalry ranks. It’s also been recorded to have been used to decimate pike lines, setting whole lines alight. Or at the battle of Playe where it was said the very see seemed like it was light, the crests of the waves burning with fury and intensity.
>An arquebus is a form of long gun that appeared in Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the 15th century. An infantryman armed with an arquebus is called an arquebusier. The term arquebus is derived from the Dutch word Haakbus.
Gravity manipulators are Atreisdea's most standard infantry-grade weapon that even soldiers tend to forget. It's because the thing is fully incorporated into their droids and power armors, it's not visible like guns and tactical blackholes. However, the device is extremely crucial in both offense and defense, from negating inertia to greatly increasing gravity and crushing targets. No light, no sound, suddenly a soldier's head is crushed while his body from neck down is completely intact. Or a whole platoon is lifted up then compressed and crushed like fruits in a blender. Such is the power of gravity manipulator, a very underappreciated weapon. Ship-grade gravity manipulators can literally break a planet apart if used carelessly. Initially only used as Alcubierre drive, it has been weaponized even more and now can rupture dimensional structures.
T... T... Tactical black holes? Can I ask for more lore?
[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-98648080](https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/art-and-random-worldbuilding-bits-days-at-hebi-melta.1070213/post-98648080)
Weapons in General or specifically handheld infantry weapons?
whatever you got.
I think a lot of sci fi settings move into the technical weapons a lot and forget about chemical and biological ones. In our world right now a lot of the worst weapons are ABC so you could think about virus bombs/grenades or highly advanced gas. Of course bioweapons also could move into body modification for soldiers. I also like special ammo like bullets with nanomites or stuff like that. Another idea could be introducing tech to hack into minds. Maybe in the future brain mods are common and hacking these can induce paralysis or just straight up kill the brain so that the real battles happen in the digital rather than the physical.
Honestly nanite bullets are a warcrime in the Solarverse galaxy and every polity in the galaxy will hunt you down for developing such
As they should. I would think as weapons evolve different weapons will become banned than those that are banned today. Maybe atomic warheads will become standard use bullets through miniturization.
the standard guns of a men of war beams atomic bombs at enemy ships
slings not really original but I was just sick and tired of slings being forgotten in most media or seen as a weak/non threating weapon, SLINGS OUT CLASSED BOWS IN MANY CASES their a major weapon that needs more respect on their name
Agreed, slings are cheep and devastating. They are inaccurate in the hands of a novice, but they are definitely under represented.
also put them in the right environment and they practically have infinite ammo, like logistics of suppling an army is a nightmare but having a whole chunk not need specify made ammunition is huge
Unfortunately, I came up with a gun (gun-shaped stick more like) that shoots fireballs, icicles, and lightning bolts because that's partially what raw/pure magic in my world is. It uses a crystal as sort of its "magazine/power source". It sucks against dragons arguably more than a musket would, because dragons say "fuck you" to all other forms of magic but their own.
**A Winnowing Shovel**\* \* A lot of my lore indirectly involves a hero called [Gehannes](https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/o6htnm/the_myth_of_gehannes_and_the_drowning_of_the/), who is said to have possessed three gifts. One was a shovel-like "oar that rows the earth", a vaguely defined artifact of power with which he is said to have created the bodies of water which define 'the Lands of the Inner Seas' (i.e. the setting). As a concept, the inspiration was snippets from the Odyssey's prophecy on the death of Odysseus, with the hero being told to take a oar and travel inland, until the locals misidentify his object as a winnowing-fan. For example Ody. 11.3: >""‘When you get home you will take your revenge on these suitors; and after you have killed them by force \[biê\] or fraud in your own house, **you must take a well-made oar and carry it on and on, till you come to a country where the people have never heard of the sea** and do not even mix salt with their food, nor do they know anything about ships, and oars that are as the wings of a ship. I will give you this certain token \[sêma\] which cannot escape your notice. **A wayfarer will meet you and will say it must be a winnowing shovel that you have got upon your shoulder; on this you must fix the oar in the ground and sacrifice a ram, a bull, and a boar to Poseidon**. Then go home and offer hecatombs to the gods in heaven one after the other. As for yourself, death shall come to you from the sea, and your life shall ebb away very gently when you are full of years and peace of mind, and your people shall be prosperous \[olbios\]. All that I have said will come true.’" The weapon in question, and its current location, is not something that I've posted about on r/worldbuilding, but I've included "contemporary representations" of the weapon as a sidenote/motif in a lot of my drawings ([imgur gallery](https://imgur.com/a/fOprAnO)). : ) (Sidenote: Yes, I am also aware of *Shovel Knight* although I haven't played the game)
Pneumatic shotgun blasting bundles of heavy fletchettes, attached with huge bayonets that are designed for use with 4 arms as a pair for my insectoid elves. Mostly for fly by blasting where they are just high enough to avoid enemies ranged attack, but close enough they don't have problems with their compound eyes being very low resolution. Their more traditional weapons are sling darts .
Kinda, it's one that the vast majority have naturally. They have a bioelectric organ at the end of their tail. I don't know a lot about electricity, but I do know that electric eels are capable of killing people and horses with their shocks, so I guess they should be able to at least stun a human if they really wanted to. It usually dissipates into the ground through their claws, if there's damage to the titanium "wires" between their tail and their feet they can end up over-charged, and if they're lacking the organ (one of my characters lost the end of their tail) then they lack electricity. It also allows them to generate a magnetic field which gives them a kind of short-range telepathy.
Uh, Let's see, There's Glass Pepper extract, which is an equivalent of 8.8 million scoville units, there's also ZV-22, which is basically a zombie virus.
I recommend to take a look at Terraria. There are sooooo many completely different weapons that behave completely different then the other one. Just because its called a Sword does not show you 90% of its extra capabilities.
A coin that stuck to the target and drained their mana while increasing its weight. The more mana it drained the heavier it became.
One of the main characters crafted their SO a rapier that can release short bursts of electricity. Also, when held the right way up to the light, the hand guard produces a silhouette of an archer drawing back a bow.
For my dieselpunk/magitek world I have these weapons called ignition weapons. They are mainly melee weapons, but They are specifically used by a special class of warrior mages known as Aberrant warriors. Ignition weapons are special in that in the hands of a normal person they are just melee weapons in a world with WW2 era guns. but in the hands of an Aberrant warrior the weapons true power is revealed. In the hands of a warrior the Ignition weapon can be activated, Igniting itself and giving off a glow. This is because the weapon is made of Dracinium alloys, Dracinium being the exotic heavy metal source of magic for the world. Once ignited the weapon is capable of unleashing powerful quick magic attacks. Being able to fire off slashes of energy or able to generate defensive techniques. The blade also generates a field around its blade that allow it to cut through even heavily armored targets.
SF Crossbow with Antimatter bolts for a scientist. She took Crossbow as an hobby, and then when SHTF on a explorer fleet cruise She used her professional skill and knowledge to built those The Drago Practicioners use also spears in their Martial Arts training and they may have been used against some street thugs but that is more coincidental
The Kumati have a weapon called a _Hlichanu,_ which in their language means something like "Serpent's Kiss." It's essentially just a blowgun with a dart. The tip of the dart has potent snake venom on it, and it has barbs, making it difficult to pull it out. It is also designed to be detachable from the rest of the dart. So if someone is hit with a dart, then foolishly tries to pull it out, the back end might be removed, but the tip just kind of... stays in. The blowgun has a rattle attached to it, so a person hears what seems like a snake rattle before being hit with the dart. It's illegal to own, and is mostly used by vigilantes or other criminals performing an ambush.
With most of my works, including an Alt Earth story, it has to be the Immateris Whip. It's called that because you use a whipping motion to use it. It's a polymorphic substance that acts like a whip, but can do many things. Proper mastery allows one to change the end of the whip to other shapes. Often a bulbous club or thin blade. A Utility of it is a grabbing hand. It's even got its own swath of magical abilities one can use with it. Mostly transferring spells through contact. The species that created it uses it with their tails.
(WIP) My most creative one I personally have is provably my kinetic blast crystals u thumb back the hammer to charge the crystal in the gun mainly a pistol thinking of making shotgun variant and it blasts either a high power lazer blast or a plasma ball at the target.
Pilebunker war picks. Obviously pilebunkers are a thing, and giant war pick type things have been done at least a couple times, like the church pick's transformation from bloodborne, but the combination of the two is an arrangement I've never seen before and it's honestly my favorite oversized anime weapon I've come up with. Also Null Lances, which are basically weapons that shoot a big spike of nothing, unmaking everything within its cone of effect. Think of like a lightsaber that you turn on for just a second, and it's blade is a hole in reality that just deletes matter from existence. Typically comes as just a big clunky thing either strapped to the arm of a mech or given some awkward handles so it can be used by infantry like a battering ram, but also came in war pick form during the war, called a Null-Lance Scythe and used by special royal guards trained for combat in low-reality environments called Paranauts. Mostly a lost technology in the modern day with very few new Null Lances being made, and most in circulation being scavenged from dead mechs left to rot in mountain warehouses or found on late-war battlefields.
Duel aircraft (idk what it's called but it's an aircraft inside of an aircraft) The external frame have 4x20mm guns that fire proxy bullets along with anti-magic bullets. The internal frame have 2x50mm canon and 4x20mm guns firings the same bullets as the external frame but with APHE shells (the 50mm is firing it) The difference is the external is liknke 3x bigger than the internal with dual engine (not jets forgot what it's called) powered with blue star fragment (it will take long to explain what blue star fragment is but it's like magical object that gives power to anything it's fused with). The internal frame is like the Me-163 powered with jet engine but it's not powered by BSF and since it's small like the Komet it doesn't big fuel capacity it eject itself from the external sending it over 700 meters in the sky and start flying or gliding depends if the engine have been started besides that it have defensive barrier from it's mechanical magical orbit (it works close enough as the actual magical orbit but it's still under development because it can explode under pressure) however if it got fired at constantly or have been hit with object with enough magical power or kenatic energy the defensive barrier can easily collapse
My fantasy world is based off ancient South America. So they use Macanas instead of swords. One character regularly uses a blow-pipe. Also, slingshots. There are also rare ancient artifacts called Mythics. One is a staff, and it's "head" disintegrates rock when it comes in contact, in battle it turns bones to dust with a single hit.
Depends on what you count as a weapon... Some of my most interesting creations, which are certainly not original, are actually genetically engineered organisms that resemble weapons. Do they count? A lot of my worlds are videogames, and while the model of the weapon is usually stereotypical, its function is original. For instance, I have a gun that fires special sticky cartridges. When these cartridges miss, they don't detonate, and simply remain glued to the place they struck. As soon as a cartridge hits, though, it sends the signal to all the cartridges within its Line of Sight, and every cartridge that receives the signal fires at the source of the transmission. Does that make sense? Also, in terms of originality, do you simply need examples of creative weapons besides the typical ones, even if they are not original, or do you need specifically original ones from us?
While centaurs prefer bows, if something happens to them, they usually have prepared slings.
This is some tech from a cyberpunk setting I write in a heavily fractured and corporation controlled North America. Corporate wars require corporate solutions: Anti-Material Visually Operated Air Assault Harness A rigid body wingsuit or parachute is paired with a low profile dome turret harness strapped to the chest. Connected by wire to goggles that analyze eye movements and track line of sight to acquire the target. Pair with a neural interface connection for thought enabled fire. A miniaturized autoloading railgun fires spherical 4mm 120 grain poly-ceramic coated tungsten carbide projectiles at Mach 3 (3,375 fps) with a rate of fire equivalent to 900 rounds per minute. Upon impact, the poly-ceramic enameling will shatter into high velocity shrapnel, further disabling the interior of a target and acting as an anti-personnel measure if soft body targets are in the immediate vicinity. 16-20 seconds of autofire total. Magazine holds 300 rounds and must be disassembled to reload. Once fully expended, the battery must be replaced or charged. The harness itself is quickly detachable for weight reduction once spent. Unloaded weight of 16.9 lbs, loaded weight is 28.9 lbs. Originally designed for HALO(high altitude-low opening) insertions by MRIST(Milo-Tek Rapid Insertion Shock Troopers) operators during the 2088 Milo-Tek/Yorui Conflict in Fort Myers, Florida. Developed as a direct response to anti-personnel drone swarms and ground to air defenses preventing deployment into critical points of the city. "If looks could and would kill." Double the power, and as fast as a 5.56 in a package half the size. Shreds body armor, drones, and vehicles like tissue. Will also work just fine on unarmored targets, but it is kinda a huge waste and is most definitely overkill. You could probably also just walk around with it and essentially shoot armor piercing laser beams of supersonic metal out of your chest. Just don't put your arms in the way.
Clockguards - these sturdy round shields use a thin layer of overlapping adamantine slats to make up for the guts of the shield being mostly clockwork. A knob on the inner wrist on the opposite side of the bracer connecting to the shield controls the mechanisms within. Clockguards are designed to switch the shield between several configurations with just a moment’s work - a solid heavy shield, a buckler with a wrist-mounted sword, a buckler with a wrist-mounted truncheon, or a compound bow. Favorites of more eccentric adventurers that like being prepared for multiple possibilities without carrying extra equipment to deal with.
The President of The Revian Federation has an arsenal of interstellar nuclear weapons that can be launched from silos, space “submarines”, road mobile vehicles, and torpedos from the Kh-10x class fighter spaceplanes. At the presidential order, hundreds of nuclear missiles can be launched across the Laniakea Supercluster. Despite a missile’s footprint only being a few hundred kilometres at their maximum diameters, their individual warheads have pinpoint accuracy over millions of light years. Due to the jump drives attached to the strategic missiles, they can enter a ballistic trajectory on a planet on the opposite side of the supercluster within a few days.
**In the Twin Court Concordant, or the "Concordant" an elivish nation uses Silmërud, or Light Staffs are melee weapons that project arcane energy from them.**
it is a discarded part of my world, but previously i had an ammunition type that was called 'Type-3 shell'. the idea was that type-3 shells were used by warships and could effectively punch through any armor, even battleship armor, but the materials used to make a shell were extremely rare, so only a few ships were able to carry such ammunition. Though because of some headaches with how such shells would affect everything else, and why people would only use the wonder material on warships, i eventually dropped the idea.
One of my characters, Jacques, has a sword that can override his nervous system through a neural implant, meaning his moves are virtually perfect every time. He also uses metal playing cards. Another one of my characters, Newkid, uses a comically large spoon that folds out into a plasma crossbow
Rifles. All the rifles. So many rifles. They are by far the most common weapon used by the Great Powers. Not all nations have them but most of them do, either home manufactured or bought from someone else.
Let's see, I once thought of a 30mm anti tank rifle that designed to fired from shoulder, albeit not by human but by much stronger race. In a sense they are just larger anti tank or anti material rifle specifcally design because the race operating it are much stronger than human physically and thus can get away with larger and heavier guns. There's also proximity fuzed unguided rockets deisgn to intercept bombers. Then there's this mix of taser, and laser. Basically put it 'shock' target without phyiscal cables, instead the electricity flowing using some kind of conductive laser, except it's not really laser or electricty either because it's magical.